# Does Duck Make You Sick? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137 "2011-10-19T13:12:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/21 "2011-10-19T23:38:11Z")
I love ducks. They are hilarious and delicious. A duck is always the funniest character in a cartoon pantheon (see: Duck, Donald; Duck, Daffy; Duck, Psy-). ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/22 "2011-10-19T23:53:59Z")
Don’t worry, dear, I’ll have your duck. I love it. I’m having duck, duck, duck, duck and duck. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/23 "2011-10-20T00:00:15Z")
Thufferin’ Thuccotash! ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/24 "2011-10-20T09:01:37Z")
Only had it once in a cassoulet and have been searching for more duck ever since. No adverse effects. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/25 "2011-10-20T12:59:25Z")
One of my life dreams is meeting the owners of Martiko, a local-to-me duck farm which has single-handedly managed to change duck from “an exotic food” to “a sort’a upper-scale food you can buy at any mid-to-high-end supermarket in Spain”. No problems eating duck here. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/26 "2011-10-20T13:36:00Z")
So I gots to ask… is this where the “ralph” comes from? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/27 "2011-10-20T13:40:36Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Chicken fried duck is just awesome. I will second this. A friend recieve some fresh duck from a hunter friend, and had never cooked it before. Being a good Southern girl, she just fried it like chicken. Oh. My. God. That was one of the best dinners I ever ate. Moist and succulent, with rich flavor. Highly recommend. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/28 "2011-10-20T13:41:56Z")
> [@Capitaine\_Zombie](#): > > Sounds like a spoonerism. Yeah, I heard the chef at **ralph** ’s local restaurant cooks ducks in hell. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/29 "2011-10-20T13:46:18Z")
Lord, I love a duck! It doesn’t make me ill at all. Roasted, confit, in cassoulet… Yummy. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/30 "2011-10-20T14:56:19Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Lord, I love a duck! Why a duck? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/31 "2011-10-20T14:59:34Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Why a duck? ‘Lord love a duck!’ is a euphemism used to express surprise or shock. Since I actually enjoy eating ducks, I thought I’d use it. EDIT: I’ve been WOOSHED! :smack: Must get more caffeine… . ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/32 "2011-10-20T15:06:54Z")
So… if she weighs the same as a duck… then she’s made of wood… ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/33 "2011-10-20T15:19:11Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Love duck and it has always treated me well. Ditto. Nothing quite the crispy delicious skin of a well-cooked duck. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/34 "2011-10-21T02:20:26Z")
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then I’ll eat the bastard. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/35 "2011-10-21T03:32:39Z")
I’ve never had duck, and after this thread I’m thinking I’d better not. KFC makes me throw up (made, actually. I’ve avoided it for a long while now) and I understand that duck is even greasier than that. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/36 "2011-10-21T03:41:14Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I’ve never had duck, and after this thread I’m thinking I’d better not. KFC makes me throw up (made, actually. I’ve avoided it for a long while now) and I understand that duck is even greasier than that. Eh, a good skin on, fried or grilled, medium rare duckbreaxt is no worse than a steak. the fat is rendered from the skin and it simply leaches off or becomes the drained cooking medium. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/37 "2011-10-21T03:53:12Z")
Speaking of duck, I was recently handed a piece of fried duck’s bill to munch on. Really. Tough, kind of like jerky. ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/38 "2011-10-21T04:16:12Z")
Of course, wild duck and farmed ducked are for all practical purposes different animals. What were the ducks five puking ways? See, I would age my wild duck quite considerably like dry aged beef. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/39 "2011-10-21T05:03:55Z")
not as long as I eat it with quackers. ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137/40 "2011-10-21T12:07:43Z")
If ordering duck, it is essential to ensure it is in season. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-duck-make-you-sick/600137.md?page=3)